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I am this day in receipt of your favor of 21: announcing your appreciation for appointment to an Auditorship & requesting a letter from me to be filed &c. I have invariably declined writing letters to the Departments on the subject of appointments. Could I make an exception in any case, I should be most strongly tempted to do so in favor of one whom I have known as long & as well, & as favorably as I have known you & who has so many of the requisites & the ability, the integrity, the industry necessary to make a good officer.

You have my best wishes for the success of your application it will be

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Albany, April 23, 1849Nathan Sargent Esq

My Dear Sir,

I am this day in receipt of your favor of 21: announcing your appreciation for appointment to an Auditorship & requesting a letter from me to be filed &c. I have invariably declined writing letters to the Departments on the subject of appointments. Could I make an exception in any case, I should be most strongly tempted to do so in favor of one whom I have known as long & as well, & as favorably as I have known you & who has so many of the requisites & the ability, the integrity, the industry necessary to make a good officer.

You have my best wishes for the success of your application it will be